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Tornado Warnings in Iowa, 2015

61 tornado warnings in 2015. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2015. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
61
Busiest month
November20 tornado warnings
Busiest day
November 11, 201520 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 9, 3:39 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNKeokuk, Washington36 min
Apr 9, 5:06 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNScott24 min
Apr 9, 5:24 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNClinton, Scott36 min
Apr 9, 5:49 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatDVNClinton26 min
May 10, 2:51 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDSioux24 min
May 10, 7:15 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXCalhoun, Carroll30 min
May 10, 7:37 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPocahontas23 min
May 10, 7:43 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXCalhoun32 min
May 10, 8:12 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCalhoun, Pocahontas33 min
May 17, 3:13 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXDallas32 min
May 17, 3:30 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXBoone, Dallas30 min
May 17, 4:03 AM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXBoone, Webster21 min
May 24, 7:18 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDVNScott27 min
Jun 11, 3:34 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont, Page26 min
Jun 22, 6:55 AM CDTTornado WarningDMXHumboldt, Wright35 min
Jun 22, 5:08 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXLucas, Marion, Monroe37 min
Jun 22, 5:44 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXMonroe31 min
Jun 22, 6:10 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAppanoose, Davis, Monroe, Wapello20 min
Jun 22, 6:44 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDavis16 min
Jun 22, 7:03 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDavis27 min
Jun 24, 6:57 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXGuthrie48 min
Jun 24, 7:04 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDallas41 min
Jun 24, 7:19 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAdair, Madison26 min
Jun 24, 7:21 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAdair, Audubon, Cass24 min
Jun 24, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAdair, Audubon, Cass, Guthrie45 min
Jul 16, 5:21 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXStory18 min
Jul 16, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNDes Moines45 min
Jul 18, 12:03 PM CDTTornado WarningARXClayton27 min
Aug 2, 6:30 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXAdams30 min
Aug 2, 6:55 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXAdams, Union18 min
Aug 2, 8:12 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXTaylor33 min
Aug 18, 3:14 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJones31 min
Oct 23, 5:43 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFSDSioux32 min
Oct 23, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDCherokee30 min
Oct 23, 5:47 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDPlymouth28 min
Oct 23, 6:08 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFSDO'Brien37 min
Oct 23, 6:12 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDPlymouth, Sioux33 min
Oct 23, 6:16 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDCherokee, O'Brien29 min
Oct 23, 6:42 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFSDO'Brien14 min
Oct 23, 6:44 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDO'Brien, Osceola31 min
Nov 11, 1:54 PM CSTTornado WarningOAXPottawattamie, Shelby18 min
Nov 11, 2:31 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXCarroll29 min
Nov 11, 2:39 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXClarke, Decatur, Ringgold21 min
Nov 11, 2:44 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXWayne46 min
Nov 11, 2:59 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXDallas, Madison16 min
Nov 11, 3:00 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXGreene, Guthrie30 min
Nov 11, 3:04 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXMadison, Warren26 min
Nov 11, 3:09 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXBoone, Dallas25 min
Nov 11, 3:18 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXAppanoose, Lucas, Monroe, Wayne27 min
Nov 11, 3:27 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXAppanoose, Monroe, Wapello33 min
Nov 11, 3:44 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXJasper31 min
Nov 11, 3:56 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXJasper, Mahaska, Marion, Poweshiek41 min
Nov 11, 4:10 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXMahaska20 min
Nov 11, 4:12 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXMarshall, Tama18 min
Nov 11, 4:17 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNIowa, Keokuk43 min
Nov 11, 4:23 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXMahaska, Poweshiek37 min
Nov 11, 4:30 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXGrundy, Marshall, Tama30 min
Nov 11, 5:02 PM CSTTornado WarningDMXBlack Hawk23 min
Nov 11, 5:07 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNJohnson, Linn18 min
Nov 11, 5:47 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNCedar, Jones14 min
Dec 23, 4:45 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNClinton, Scott30 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

16 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. November 11, 201520tornado warnings
  2. October 23, 20158tornado warnings
  3. June 22, 20155tornado warnings
  4. April 9, 20154tornado warnings
  5. May 11, 20154tornado warnings
  6. June 25, 20154tornado warnings
  7. May 17, 20153tornado warnings
  8. July 16, 20152tornado warnings
  9. August 2, 20152tornado warnings
  10. May 10, 20151tornado warnings
  11. May 25, 20151tornado warnings
  12. June 11, 20151tornado warnings

Nearby

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Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.